HunterSeven Foundation

HunterSeven Foundation We serve and support Post-9/11 military veterans with medical illnesses, and cancers through evidence Whatever it takes to save as many lives as possible.

We serve and support Post-9/11 military veterans with medical illnesses, and cancers through evidence-based research, clinical education, and immediate needs and medical care support.

For 25 years, Master Gunnery Sergeant Ricardo Gaeta served our nation with honor, courage, and loyalty. 🇺🇸This past Tues...
08/30/2026

For 25 years, Master Gunnery Sergeant Ricardo Gaeta served our nation with honor, courage, and loyalty. 🇺🇸

This past Tuesday, after a six-year battle with a rare and aggressive cancer, Ricardo passed away at home, with his wife Tiffany and his family by his side.

He was only 47.

Ricardo endured more than most people ever should. From surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, pain, setbacks, and exhaustion… but somehow, he still made room for other people. He smiled. He asked how you were doing. He loved deeply.

And maybe that is what his life reminds us most.

Be present.

Put the phone down.
Sit a little longer.
Say “I love you” more often.
Forgive faster.
Make the call.
Take the trip.
Hug your people.

We spend so much of life assuming there will be more time.

Sometimes there isn’t.

Ricardo’s life was defined by service, family, love, and the people he showed up for every single day.

To Tiffany and the Gaeta family, we are heartbroken with you, and no matter what, we will ALWAYS be here for you.

To Erin & Nikki, Joey, Roy, and Keith… thanks to each of you who made Ricardo know what it means to be a part of the HunterSeven family 💙

Semper Fi, Marine 🇺🇸❤️

VITAMIN D IS MORE THAN A “BONE VITAMIN.”Vitamin D plays a role in immune function, inflammation, cell growth and program...
08/20/2026

VITAMIN D IS MORE THAN A “BONE VITAMIN.”

Vitamin D plays a role in immune function, inflammation, cell growth and programmed cell death… all processes that matter when we talk about long-term health and cancer biology.

A 2023 review found that low circulating Vitamin D has been associated with increased cancer risk and poorer outcomes across several cancer types.

🩸Know your number: Vitamin D deficiency is generally considered a 25(OH)D level below 20 ng/mL.

☀️ Optimal is upwards of 50 ng/mL.

For our military and veteran community, this deserves attention. Vitamin deficiencies have been documented across military populations, and many veterans also live with chronic GI problems, prior GI surgeries or other conditions that can interfere with nutrient absorption.

Vitamin D is fat-soluble, so problems with fat absorption can make maintaining adequate levels difficult.

And that is the important part:

If your Vitamin D stays low despite supplementation, don’t just keep taking more, ask WHY.

Low Vitamin D does not mean you have cancer, and Vitamin D is not a cancer treatment. But persistent deficiency can be an important piece of the larger health picture.

Check it.
Correct it.
Recheck it.

And if it stays low, look for the root cause.

Whole health isn’t just treating an abnormal lab, it is understanding why it became abnormal in the first place.

Seraphin et al. (2023)
Https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsbmb.2023.106308

Yew et al. (2026)
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2026.1903301

Retired Green Beret, Sergeant Major Joey Muramoto spent his life serving, leading, and looking out for the men beside hi...
08/17/2026

Retired Green Beret, Sergeant Major Joey Muramoto spent his life serving, leading, and looking out for the men beside him.

Cancer took him far too soon.

Now, we want to honor Joey by doing exactly what he would have wanted us to do: take care of his teammates.

Collectively, with the blessing of his wife, a few organizations are raising funds to provide comprehensive cancer screening for 100 of Joey’s fellow Special Operators and teammates in his memory, beginning the day before his funeral in Draper, Utah on 28 August.

🇺🇸 Donate using this link: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/cancer-screening-in-memory-of-joey

These are men who have spent decades exposed to burn pits, airborne hazards, chemicals, radiation, fuels, solvents, and countless other occupational exposures, often without realizing what may be developing inside their bodies.

We cannot change what happened to Joey. But we can make damn sure we learn from it.

Help us screen his brothers. Help us find cancer earlier. Help us give someone else the chance Joey deserved.

This one is for Joey. And for every teammate still standing beside us. 🇺🇸

16 seats. Pinehurst No. 2. And an exclusive range day with Special Operators. That's the whole event.September 20–22, 20...
08/10/2026

16 seats. Pinehurst No. 2. And an exclusive range day with Special Operators. That's the whole event.

September 20–22, 2026, sixteen participants will stay at the historic Carolina Hotel, experience dining play Pinehurst No. 2 with PGA professional Will McGirt, then trade the fairway for a private range to train alongside decorated warfighters, including Smith & Wesson Academy Director and Navy SEAL, Mark Cochiolo and former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, a Green Beret and Gold Star husband.

One evening, over dinner, Joe will speak informally about something he knows too well and why the HunterSeven mission is important to him: watching cancer claim the lives of those around him, from his best friend, to his brother-in-law.

No massive ballroom or banquet. This is small for a reason. Sixteen seats in total and every one matters.

$6,500 covers it all: lodging, golf, meals and drinks, range instruction, fi****ms and ammo, and a curated gear package featuring a custom Smith & Wesson M2.0 Metal HD pistol built for this event... a collective value well-exceeding more than double its cost.

Every dollar raised goes to the HunterSeven Care Campus, opening November 2026 in Tennessee... we've kept it a secret until now. But we are funding integrative care for post-9/11 military veterans facing injuries and illnesses connected to their service. The best part is, it will not cost them anything at all.

Donate and reserve your spot now now → https://www.h7fppp.com/

We all know that traumatic brain injury is not always an isolated injury to the brain, especially when it is repeated.Mo...
08/10/2026

We all know that traumatic brain injury is not always an isolated injury to the brain, especially when it is repeated.

More importantly (and what many do not know) is that repetitive blast exposure can trigger changes across the brain, immune system, nervous system and gut, and some of those changes may persist long after the initial exposure as a result of the inflammatory response rush.

Researchers from the University of Washington and Puget Sound VA studying repetitive blast-TBI found:

• Neuroinflammation was still present 3 months after repetitive blast exposure.

• Blast caused a significant inflammatory response throughout the body and brain.

• The gut microbiome changed within hours of injury (Leaky gut, IBS-like sx. etc.)

• Blast-exposed subjects developed increased risk-taking and alcohol-seeking behavior later on.

• Most interestingly, early vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) blunted key inflammatory signals after repetitive blast-TBI and reduced some of those later behavioral changes.

Why does this matter?

Because the vagus nerve (CN X) is one of the primary communication pathways between the brain, immune system, heart and gut. And it may represent a completely different way of approaching the secondary injury that happens after a blast, not simply treating symptoms months or years later.

This doesn’t mean VNS will fix all your problems, but it does mean we need to stop viewing TBI as something that happens once, inside the skull, and then ends.

The injury may be neurological. The consequences are systemic.

Save this one. Because VNS devices like nuropod / gammacore / pulsetto and nurosym could be a cost-effective game-changer for neuroinflammation and the gut-brain axis in TBI research 🧠

📸: Clandestine Media Group

Today, we honor more than a warfighter who fought cancer. We honor a pioneer who changed military aviation forever.LtCol...
08/09/2026

Today, we honor more than a warfighter who fought cancer. We honor a pioneer who changed military aviation forever.

LtCol. Deb Lee, USAF (Ret.) served from 1991 to 2015. In 1997, she became the first female B-1 bomber pilot in history, earning her place in a community built around one of the most powerful and demanding aircraft in the United States arsenal.

She went on to deploy repeatedly, flying hundreds of combat missions in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And she made history again.

While deployed to Joint Base Balad, Iraq in 2009, Deb became the first woman to command a remotely piloted aircraft squadron, leading the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance and Attack Squadron (46 ERAS). Her career would later include missions supporting the President and Vice President of the United States aboard Air Force One and Air Force Two.

She spent nearly 25 years serving, leading, flying, and proving that the barriers in front of her were meant to be broken.

Then, at 54, Deb was diagnosed with metastatic and on August 7, 2024, she died at just 56 years old.

Deb Lee was a combat aviator.
A commander.
A trailblazer.
A mother.
A woman who opened doors that had never been opened before, and made the path wider for every woman who followed.

Today, we remember the fight that took her.

But more importantly, we remember the life, service, courage, and history that came before it.

Fly high, Spoofer 🇺🇸

The Wound That Speaks.They pin a medal onfor bleeding. But no one decorates you for what bleeds after.Viktor Frankl wrot...
08/08/2026

The Wound That Speaks.

They pin a medal onfor bleeding.
But no one decorates you for what bleeds after.

Viktor Frankl wrote that suffering ceases to be suffering the moment it finds a meaning.

The Purple Heart is supposed to be that meaning made metal, proof that pain was purchased for something.

But a medal cannot answer the question asked in the middle of the night: “why did I live when they didn’t?”

Dr. Thomas Joiner taught us that people die when two beliefs collide: first, that they are a burden, and second, that they belong nowhere.

Here is the cruel irony of the Purple Heart: the wound that earned it can whisper both lies at once.

The injury that makes you feel like a burden.
The discharge that takes away your tribe.

But Frankl also said this: those who have a why can bear almost any how.

The medal doesn’t give the wounds meaning, YOU do, every morning, choose to carry it forward instead of letting it carry you down.

The Purple Heart isn’t an award for being wounded. It’s a reminder that you are still here to be one thing a medal can never be: purposeful and present.

💜

“Stand for your values and beliefs. Don’t live for validation, and most importantly, give yourself permission to offend....
08/05/2026

“Stand for your values and beliefs. Don’t live for validation, and most importantly, give yourself permission to offend.” 💕

Rachel’s strength was forged long before cancer entered her story.

She survived a childhood marked by adversity and trauma, including the loss of both parents. She found her way forward through service, enlisting in the Marine Corps and deploying to Iraq during the height of the war. She served for ten years, built a life rooted in purpose, and met her husband, a fellow Marine.

When Rachel left the military, she still felt called to do more. She devoted her next chapter to leadership, confidence, and helping others conquer the self-doubt that keeps so many people from becoming who they were meant to be.

HarperCollins published her book, Permission to Offend (highly recommended, and she reads the words so beautifully and with such energy) and Rachel went on to share her voice through the Today Show, Lifetime, and hundreds of podcasts.

Forbes even named her one of the eleven most inspiring female entrepreneurs.

Then, in 2019, Rachel was diagnosed with triple-neg. breast cancer.

She was only forty years old.
A mother of two.
A military spouse.
A combat veteran.
And a woman with so much more left to give. 

Yet even while facing an aggressive diagnosis, Rachel continued serving others. She worked alongside the Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Battalion, helping fellow Marines navigate trauma, healing, and the difficult work of rebuilding themselves.

Rachel refused to let cancer become the headline of her life.

She always said she was more than her diagnosis. 

She called herself a breast cancer champion, a woman fearlessly fighting what others could not see. In many ways, that battle reflected the life she had already lived: quietly enduring, relentlessly moving forward, and refusing to be defined by what tried to break her.

Her strength was unwavering. Her voice was fearless. Her legacy lives in every person she encouraged to stand taller, speak louder, and stop asking permission to become who they were meant to be.

365 days later, we remember you, Rachel 🇺🇸

Not only for how fiercely you fought, but for how boldly you lived.

To the community that continues to stand alongside those who serve—thank you. Your compassion, generosity, and unwaverin...
08/03/2026

To the community that continues to stand alongside those who serve—thank you. Your compassion, generosity, and unwavering support have carried this family through some of their darkest days.

Today, we ask that you keep the Hudson family in your thoughts and prayers. Please lift up Aaron’s wife and their three children, who fought this battle beside him every step of the way.

Yesterday, Army veteran, and owner of Hudson Baking Co., Aaron Hudson passed away after an incredibly courageous fight. His strength, resilience, and love for his family never wavered, even in the face of unimaginable hardship.

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” — 2 Timothy 4:7

Rest easy, Aaron.
You will not be forgotten.

Aaron Hudson Forever.

PLEASE HELP US GET ANTHONY A SECOND OPINION.1/6 Marine Regiment veteran Rob Chilelli reached out to us this past week, p...
07/29/2026

PLEASE HELP US GET ANTHONY A SECOND OPINION.

1/6 Marine Regiment veteran Rob Chilelli reached out to us this past week, praying someone can help get his brother, Anthony Chilelli, the life-saving care he needs.

Anthony is also a Marine who served our country in 3/1 Marine Regiment from 2007–2012, bravely fighting in Garmsir, Afghanistan, before continuing service as an NYPD officer.

On February 19, 2026, Anthony went into the hospital for brain surgery to remove a rare tumor near his pituitary gland.

What followed was months of devastating complications — significant bleeding in his brain, another emergency surgery, a stroke, brain swelling requiring part of his skull to be removed, persistent hydrocephalus and problems with the fluid surrounding his brain, seizures, and a prolonged state of severely impaired consciousness... going on for six months at Staten Island University Hospital, and his family is requesting a transfer.

His wife, Dianna, was in her third trimester of pregnancy when their lives changed overnight.

There are parts of Anthony's hospitalization that our family has very serious questions about, and those questions will eventually need answers. But right now, this isn't about blame. This is about Anthony.

We need another set of eyes on him, assuring nothing has been overlooked.

We are desperately trying to get Anthony's case reviewed by a tertiary academic Neuro-ICU and neurosurgical team at Columbia/NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell, NYU Langone, or another major neurological center capable of managing an extraordinarily complicated case like his.

Anthony cannot advocate for himself right now.

So we are going to advocate as loudly as we possibly can for him.

He's a husband, brother, a son and he is a father whose children need him.

And we are not ready to accept that there is nothing else to be done until an independent team of experts has looked at every scan, every record, every complication and every possible option.

𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦
Please help us get Anthony's case in front of the right people.

We're asking for a door to open.

Help us get Anthony a transfer to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital -Columbia/Weill Cornell for an independent second opinion. Help us get this Marine in front of another team, giving him a chance at life.

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